a part of the APA, offers a "Landing Page" to introduce proposed revisions to the DSM-V.
Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis: Concerns about DSM-V
Mission: To provide information for people (including but not limited to professionals and journalists) about biases and other problems in psychiatric diagnosis, an especially important goal in light of the American Psychiatric Association's preparation for the 2013 publication of the next edition of the psychiatric diagnostic manual.
Bios for Group Members and Contributors
NEWS FLASH
1. Psychdiagnosis.net - website about bias in psychiatric diagnosis, including stories about people harmed in a wide variety of ways by receiving such a diagnosis and including six kinds of solutions to problems resulting from psychiatric labeling
2. Click Here for an important article in New Scientist about problems in the preparation for DSM-V
3. Click here to go to a website that is presented as allowing anyone who wants to make suggestions about DSM-V to do so.
Note: AWP’s Committee on Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis does not know what plans may have been made by the DSM-V authors to consider these suggestions.
4. Call for papers for a special issue of Social Science and Medicine, Sociology of Diagnosis
5. PSYCHOUT - A conference for organizing Resistance against Psychiatry - Call for submissions
Introduction:
Psychiatric Diagnosis: Too Little Science, Too Many Conflicts of Interest
Articles:
Anorexia Nervosa and the DSM
Borderline Personality Disorder: The Disparagement of Women through Diagnosis
Female Sexual Dysfunction Diagnoses
Gender Interupted: Controversy and Concerns about Gender Identity Disorder (GID)
Should Obesity Be Called a Mental Illness?
Problems with Parental Alienation Syndrome
Racial Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis
Social Class and Classism in Psychiatric Diagnosis
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Update: DSM pathologizes women and children
Diagnosing for Money and Power
'Because most undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses uncritically present the DSM as an objective scientific document, this summary focuses exclusively on the rarely acknowledged critical view. It neither provides a complete analysis of psychiatric diagnosis nor denies that the DSM, if used cautiously and appropriately, can be useful, nor does it advocate against psychiatric diagnostic.
The primary goal of this web page is to promote critical thinking of psychology and psychiatry by presenting an important, however, rarely acknowledged critique of psychiatric diagnosis.
The following summary was inspired by Dr. Paula Caplan's work and the writing cited in the Selected Bibliography at the end of this page.'
DSM Critique
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